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function getMotivationalSalesTeamQuotes() {
$quotes = array();
$quotes[] = "To go beyond is as bad as to fall short. - Anonymous";
$quotes[] = "To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. - Donald Laird";
$quotes[] = "To lead the people, walk behind them. - Lao Tzu";
$quotes[] = "Tough times never last, but tough people do. - Dr. Robert Schuller";
$quotes[] = "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe";
$quotes[] = "Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. - Ralph Waldo Emerson";
$quotes[] = "You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. - Charles Robert Buxton";
$quotes[] = "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. – Vince Lombardi";
$quotes[] = "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford";
$quotes[] = "The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph! – Marvin Phillips";
$quotes[] = "Every brand isn’t for everybody, and everybody isn’t for every brand. – Liz Lange";
$quotes[] = "The most unprofitable item ever manufactured is an excuse. – John Mason";
$quotes[] = "Success is the culmination of failures, mistakes, false starts, confusion, and the determination to keep going anyway. – Nick Gleason";
$quotes[] = "Most people think 'selling' is the same as 'talking'. But the most effective salespeople know that listening is the most important part of their job. – Roy Bartell";
$quotes[] = "You don't close a sale; you open a relationship if you want to build a long-term, successful enterprise. – Patricia Fripp";
$quotes[] = "If you are not taking care of your customer, your competitor will. – Bob Hooey";
$quotes[] = "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – Beverly Sills";
$quotes[] = "Life’s battles don’t always go to the strongest or fastest; sooner or later those who win are those who think they can. – Richard Bach";
$quotes[] = "If we learn from losing, we become winners in the end. – Anonymous";
$quotes[] = "If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison";
$quotes[] = "Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you. – Jeffrey Gitomer";
$quotes[] = "Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching. – George Van Valkenburg";
$quotes[] = "Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance. – Samuel Johnson";
$quotes[] = "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill";
$quotes[] = "Some men see things as they are and ask why…I dream of things that never were and ask why not? – Robert Kennedy";
$quotes[] = "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. – Og Mandino";
$quotes[] = "Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. – Ann Landers";
$quotes[] = "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail. – Napoleon Hill";
$quotes[] = "You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis. – Henry Ford";
$quotes[] = "Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. – John Wooden";
$quotes[] = "Take risks. If you win, you’ll be happy; if you lose, you’ll be wise. – Anonymous";
$quotes[] = "Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you. – Zig Ziglar";
$quotes[] = "The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them. – Jill Konrath";
$quotes[] = "Make a customer, not a sale. – Katherine Barchetti";
$quotes[] = "Tough times never last, but tough people do. – Robert Schuller";
$quotes[] = "Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. – Zig Ziglar";
$quotes[] = "Integrity is what we do, what we say and what we say we do. – Don Galer";
$quotes[] = "Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. – Jim Rohn";
$quotes[] = "He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. – Benjamin Franklin";
$quotes[] = "Fear is the destroyer of dreams and the killer of ambitions. – Jeffrey Benjamin";
$quotes[] = "The questions you ask are more important than the things you could ever say. – Tom Freese";
$quotes[] = "Excellence is not a skill. It’s an attitude. – Ralph Marston";
$quotes[] = "Today is always the most productive day of your week. – Mark Hunter";
$quotes[] = "Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favour. – Brian Tracy";
$quotes[] = "For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough. – Zig Ziglar";
$quotes[] = "Try not to become a person of success, but try to become a person of value. – Albert Einstein";
$quotes[] = "Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness. – Earl Nightingale";
$quotes[] = "Your competition is EVERYTHING else your prospect could conceivably spend their money on. – Don Cooper";
$quotes[] = "If people like you, they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you, they’ll do business with you. – Zig Ziglar";
$quotes[] = "Prospecting - Find the man with the problem. – Ben Friedman";
$quotes[] = "If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle";
$quotes[] = "The way you position yourself at the beginning of a relationship has profound impact on where you end up. – Ron Karr";
$quotes[] = "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. – Wilson Mizner";
$quotes[] = "Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous. – Ben Feldman";
return $quotes;
}
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